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We are writing myths

It’s only recently that I’ve come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

Kurt Vonnegut, 1974, from the interview “WNYC Reader’s Almanac - Vonnegut Interview”